President Joe Biden may have an uphill battle ahead of him in Pennsylvania after the write-in candidate option on the Democratic primary ballot notched over 60,000 votes. While the list of all the write-in entries has yet to be revealed, an organized protest effort against Biden was launched in the Keystone State that urged voters upset with his handling of the Israel–Hamas war to vote against him. ELECTION 2024: FOLLOW LATEST COVERAGE Uncommitted PA, the group that spearheaded the campaign, set a goal of 40,000 “uncommitted” votes during the primary. The Associated Press had tallied 60,223 t ..read more

Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday took control of the debate at the Supreme Court in a case brought by former President Donald Trump on whether he enjoys immunity from criminal prosecution. During Thursday’s arguments over Trump’s bid to have total presidential immunity against special counsel Jack Smith‘s four-count election subversion indictment, Gorsuch suggested that former presidents like Trump must have immunity or else future presidents could be targeted for prosecution and could therefore seek to pardon themselves before leaving office. “We’ve never answered whether a president can do ..read more

UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health insurance and services corporation for nine years in a row, could soon become the world’s first trillion-dollar healthcare company. Ironically, the fact that UnitedHealth, along with a small handful of massive corporate health services cartels, now controls much of the U.S. healthcare system suits most liberal politicians in Washington just fine. As odd as it sounds, this is likely those politicians’ new plan B for “Medicare for all.” Democrats have figured out how both to control and manipulate these soon-too-big-to-fail ..read more

Vice President Kamala Harris hosted reality TV star Kim Kardashian at the White House Thursday to discuss furthering efforts to commute prison sentences for nonviolent offenders across the country. The meeting follows President Joe Biden’s announcement this week that he has granted clemency to 16 drug offenders. Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Kim Kardashian, left, listen during a discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024, on criminal justice reform and the pardons issued by President Joe Biden earlier this month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh ..read more

The White House highlighted comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made earlier this week to attack former President Donald Trump‘s role in sinking the bipartisan Ukraine-border bill. Senators had unveiled a bipartisan bill to address border security while sending billions in aid to help Ukraine fight off the Russian invasion. But Republicans tanked the package, co-authored by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), at Trump’s urging. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) eventually advanced a series of separate foreign aid packages that stripped out the border provisions originally requested by Rep ..read more

President Joe Biden opened his remarks on Thursday in Syracuse, New York, by honoring the two Syracuse police officers who were killed in the line of duty last week, stating he hopes to meet with the families soon. Biden’s remarks came during a speech planned to celebrate the more than $6 billion worth of new CHIPS and Science Act grants awarded to semiconductor producer Micron Technologies. The president continued with his visit to the city despite the death of the two officers, Onondaga County Lt. Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Hoosock and Syracuse police officer Michael Jensen, and calls from loc ..read more

Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) received a bill on his desk Thursday that would issue fines to the parents of children upon committing their second crime in Tennessee. Parents would be liable for a $1,000 fine besides any monetary damages issued by a court for a second offense and every offense afterward. The Parental Accountability bill passed with only five Democratic senators voting against it, 22 Democratic representatives voting against it, and two Republican representatives opposing it as well. It is anticipated to draw $122,000 in state revenue each year. Already, there was a law in place that fin ..read more

Food recalls reached their highest level in 2023 since before the pandemic. According to a report from the Public Interest Research Group, 313 recalls were issued in 2023, an 8% increase from the year prior. Nearly half of these were due to undeclared allergens, while nearly one-quarter were due to outbreaks of salmonella or listeria. Teresa Murray, a consumer watchdog at the PIRG, criticized manufacturers for what seems like an easily avoidable problem. “Most problems with food should be easy to avoid. Food producers and packagers just need to focus more on cleanliness and disclose allergens ..read more

The United States, along with the United Kingdom and Canada, announced on Thursday additional sanctions targeting Iran’s drone proliferation network. The Treasury Department sanctioned more than a dozen entities, people, and vessels it said “played a central role in facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of Iranian” drones. This network works for Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, or MODAFL, which is involved in supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the Guard supports Russia’s war in Ukraine. “Iran’s Ministry of Defense continues to destabilize t ..read more

A pro-Palestinian high school walkout was canceled after local Democratic officials penned a scathing letter to the superintendent calling on the school to protect Jewish students from the intentionally “hostile and isolating environment” created by similar events. The “school approved walkout” at Eastern Regional High School was slated for Friday, the fifth day of Passover, and will be replaced with a “rally for peace” on May 20. Militant anti-Israel protests have engulfed schools around the country over the last week, resulting in many arrests. “The planned ‘Pro-Palestinian’ walkout is ..read more